When was the last time you actually took note of what comes out of your heart?! What did you observe actually comes out?
Like it or not, your heart is always producing (pouring out) something. Physically, it's pouring out blood, your life force! Spiritually it's pouring out whatever you set it towards.
Let me explain. A jar can only pour out what it has not what is doesn't. in the same way, your heart can only pour out what it has and never what it doesn't have.
I'm today's verse, we're encouraged to guard our hearts, to protect it because it is from it that the springs of life is from. It is from our hearts that all that supports life flow from. It is from our hearts that the desire to support and sustain life comes from. It's no wonder we often say that a person who doesn't care about life say a murderer is "Heartless" because to care about life you must have a heart.
Be careful what you put into your heart. To put something into your heart is simply done by meditating on that thing. You put either positive things or negative things into your heart when you ponder over it. We are born with a heart that cares for life but this often gets currupted turning our springs of life into springs of death, fear, confusion, spite etc.
Let us learn today, to be careful and alert guarding our hearts and allowing only life giving elements into it so that as the scripture says, only "ISSUES, SPRINGS OF LIFE SHALL FLOW FROM IT!"
AMEN!๐๐คฒ